Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 18, 1873, Page 2

9 ~ ——— e THE CIIICAGO DAILY 'TRIBUNE : THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER (8, 1873. ————————————_—_—,——_— eallod to the coat of construotion and oporation,, nud the defects inberont in tho systom wore {amugm to my notico ; and alro during thint tifé Tinyo boou an onforcod obsorver of tho va- xiod opprossions and unjust domands of capital ipou lnbor. Inasmuch ar I havo' béor- called to my prosont position without my own motion, those remurks seom Lo bo dua to you ny woll ns mysolf, Lofore ontoring upon tho con- sidoration'of tho matters wo ara hero ‘to cone sult ahout. = Whe pooplo of - thia conniry, o far aa their rouent relations to politics oxist, mny be divided hto . TANCE CLABSES ! g First—Tho vast majority of tho votors of all politicnl purties, with varying slndes of politi- ¢al opinious, who neither acok nor dosiro any oflicial station, but who act with the party most nonrly reprosonting thoir ‘opinlons; with no other motiva than an honent dosire to promoto tho publis welfare, and to advance the intor- ontw of tho wholo country by the adoption of auch moasures s, in thelr judgment, are most lile to attain that ond. Second—A much smallor numbor of mon, that epring from tho flret clugu by tho forao of thoir opiniuns on questions of publio policy, actuatod byu?:m aud laudablo minbition to merve the peoplo in ofticinl atations, eo that thoy may bo ablo to promoto tho. triumph of the opinions avhich they honestly ontertain, and who pos- sors a fixod detormiuntion to discharga with fis delity tho dutios &;r any position to which they may bo gdvanced. Ay (hird class, very much largor than the last icousists of professional politicians and- habitual oftico-soekors, belunging now to ono and then to wnother political parly, 88 prospects of succoss yary without politioal principles, aud aiming only at thoir persoual ndvantago, rogardloss of the public good and the vbligatious iu tho trusts thoy rocoive from the pooplo. Theso are tho mon who mauipulate caucusos and con- vontions, and, having secured the nominations to ofiic of persons likely to join in their schopies, thoy, by loud professions of patriotism and yehement appeals to party-prejudico aud tho Faoh of party-disciplino, succeod in influoncing the honest membors of their party to voto for nominationy not it to be made. T dosire to say, in this conucction, that my ro- marks oro goueral, anduot by any moans per- ® "Thoso corrupt and unsernpulous mon, in aod out of oflice, formtho .+ ALMOST INNUMERAILE POLITICAL RINGS ‘whiclt now infest the country,—the Court-Ilouse rings, ‘Cammany riogn, Crodit Mobilior rings whunky rings, railroad rings, and the * thousant other corrupt combinatious existing in almost overy county, city, aud State in tho whole voun= try, Uheso combinations, aud the ovil offects hiey have produced, have becomo gonerally Juown, aud a0 1o 'longor doniod. And.tho onormous frauds which v.nvia bavo; and aro con- ‘stantly porpotrating upon the peoplo, have ex- «cited well-founded alarm and just indignation, Vast smounts of capitel are concentrated, and ‘contribute freoly to the support of theso col spuators. Take, for instauco, tho capital in- fvosted in rnilronds in each Htato: that inveated i National Banks; that invostod in Jargo manu- Ynucturing corporations, mainly situntedin o ‘ow localities, managed by ablo and sagaclous on, many of whom are also unscrupulous, Is it then to bo wandored at that mombers of Con- gresssud of Stato Logislatures, nominated to thoso officea in tno mavner suggostod, should gield to thoir influence, and should, as tuero 'is 00 much rangou to boliove, OFTEN ACCEPT DIRECT BRIDES, ; Thoso allogatious of infldelity to public duty mpply to oach of tho oxisting political partios. While in each there aro many honorablo and trustworthy officors, thoy are unfortunatoly a siuority, and thoir efforts agaiust theso com- binations aro of necossity unavailing. Tho masges of hoth {mrllou have interests in com- mon, and aro alike -lonost in their desires to promote the gonernl welfaro; P‘nt tho wiro- pullers, whoso business it is to livo by party- ypolities, aided by tho mnohinory of their respec- ive partios, have succeoded in controlling both. Tho petivity and watehfuiness of ‘these mon, gogather with & (oo alrong parly spirit, which ihoy aro careful to cultivate amoag the pooplo, 1iavo onablod them to control public nffairy, Loth 3u tno States and Nation, until tho ovild pro- ‘ducod have reached AN APPALLING MAGNITUDE, 1t fa for thiy roason wo are hore to-day, broak- jng nway from old political afliliafious, aud unit- ing in @ common offort to redoem the country from the bands of corrupt mon, sud to rolicve jourselves frow the burdens lm}muml upon us b tho varied forms of specinl logislation whiol havo boen wrougfully perwitted, by our trusled gervants, to be placod upou us, No oue now Lag 4no hardibood to deny theso facts, but, with e confidonce not justifiod by ovidences bofore s, wo nre golicitod to atand firm by the old portics. Wa aro callod upon_to witness their patriotic Anti-Monopoly resolutions and platfoims. Wo aro told that roform and roliof will more surely tuko place within the prosent partios thau by means of a party raised espe- cially for that purposo, and which liss boon mado nccossary by thoir méidelity, It their claims aro woll-grounded and reasouablo for us to boliove, Jiow comes it that, by tho action of theso vory pirtics, whoso_ oxistonco the wiro-pullors. aro Pleased to considor o ossontial, tho ovils under which thoe whole land grosus hayve attainod such gt proportions? Tho truth is, that both or- ;ganizations bavo PANSED TUEIR DAYS OF USEFDLNESS, and, whateyer good thoy muy bave dong in tho pust, we know tkny have recontly failed iu o sig- pul mannor to protect the poplo agninat the growth of the evily complained of, ‘and until the massos are startled, It was their bounden duty 10 plico themsolvos an imponotrablo barrier bo- twoen the people and opprossion ; .but, instead of discharging that duty faithfully, tho corrupt mien of vach bave struck hands with tho monop- olists, aud have noutralized in one way aud an- otlicr the honest efforts of all the goud mon of ench purty to socuro reform, 1o single statemont of Indisus, mado iu his groat spoech, recently do- liverod at the opening of tho political oawpaign in Ohio, | YULLY APFIBMS TIIS POSITION, Tho Senatr eagerly disclnimed, in regard to tho # back-pay salary-grab,” sny wish to Lo under- stood “ ae approving the principles involved,” (Want of prnciples tho Monorable Senator ghiould have unidj The moasure, ho said; ** wag in no wouse a party one.” **So far Ay that iw concorned,” ho continued, “it may not be im- ropor to observe that woro Domocrats voted for it iu tho two Houses, in gmpm‘{iuu to their num- bers, than Republicaus, but it was in no sexie a party measuro.!” 3 . 1'rormn thia statomont, it is fair to presumo that the Scnator belioves, when the ofticera of polit- feul purties unite for purposcs detrimontal to tho public interokt, and #olely o promote_ thoir personal gain, thal responsibility 18 left like a zloak at tho door of tho Treasury, only to be ro- sumed agnin whon the plundorers emorgo with $heir 1ll-gotten booty. It in immaterial to the pooplo whether or not 1t was & party monsuro,—the resull is tho ppme tothem § nud the only beneflt they are likely to recowve from thut appropriation of thoir money in the cuufipmu evidenco it furuishes that de- signing and corrapt mon control both of the ox- inting political partios, o 141t not high time, then, that these organiza- tious, which have so utterly failed, as stated, BHOULD DE ABANDONED; . and that tho peoplo showd associato thomeoelves to carry out retroactive and curroctive mepsures, needod now and in the near future for their re- Senator Morton, of Lier? Fully understandiug theso conditions, and having for soveral yoara realized tho hopelous- nest 0f obtaining reliof through the old purtis, it roquired no eifort on my part to nct promptly with & genuiue movement of the people for :hu purpose of reform through a now orgauiza~ ion, 1t would seem to be difiieult—nsy, impossiblo —that rosults moro disastrous to thio publio.wel- furo should bo produced ; ulmost auy change promises to bo for the botter, "o ovils from whioh we suffor, though oxiat- Ing in various formm, aro_closely akin to cach othor, and may Lo said, porhips, to epring SUBSTANTIALLY FROM THE BAME ROOT. Tho vast revounes of tho Goneral Govern- ment, raised by burdensoma and opprossive tax- ation, ux‘ygm‘nlud by wagteful expenditure, must be reduced, A ‘Llio logislation which soeks to advanco the in- toronts of one class by imposing undue burdeny upon another, must be changed, Tho_currensy of tho dountry should be ro~ formed. Tho groat corporations that conbrol and monopolizo the avonues of tradoe must bo compellod to act in harmony with the publie in- terest, Corrupt oficials must bo songht out and punishod, and a new wpirit of upright and co- numl{:nl administration flsnly oslnlfiinlw\l for the aoplo, P Itis evidont thattho work we nre entering upon is of no small maguitude, aud to make it suocesnful will Taquire . TIME, PENSISTENOE, AND WISDOM, Lot no man who puts his hand to this plaw look back. ‘L'o ndopt the langusge of tho New York Times, *' An ocarnest movement of polite ical retorm will always Luve to oncounter nu- merous enomios, It alms at abolishivg cortain things in which many pooplo are deeply intorest- od in proserving. It hus littlo to offer, for ona of its objeots is to securo cconamy and offocion- oy. It cannot fill public ofticos with unfit por- 80Nk, becauss that is ono of the evils it seta out ' bo evrreot. It cannot give bribos, booauso It uu- ‘Wronge. dnfi:fikfll}o Pprosoxvo tho: Public Tronsury. from o Al I 4 om u!mnq ;ilmlmx arrayod againat it, !Evan If par- tlal viclory is wocured, thora will too ofton bo miore complainitig” than rojololng. 'Tho frionda of the dishionest factions will declaro_that the now offlalnls aro not equal to tho otd, Very like ly the roformera thomselves will mako somo mis- tnkon, aspeolnlly uf tho courso of a long and dif- fioult’ contost. Thon a gront chucklo will bo raised ovor thom, and the friends of tho oula will romind you that thoy always told you how it would bo, and ek you * Whiat you think of ros form now?" All thioso anl othor diflcultion will be l{»rn\nnlm\ to an unusunl degree by the subtle ‘m (‘mln-rnnchmu money-poyor wo aro contond- ng with, guoh Loing the work to bo dono, such tho onomics to oncountor, such the ovils to bo do- stroyed, it ia evident tho content will ba A LONG AND ARDUOUS ONE. T.ot no mnn flattor himuolt with tho hopo of muddon victory. The changos to’' bo mado nre in themsolvos groat, and truo statosmauship ro- quiren, that in somo respocts thoy should be gradual: but the intorests involved nre so vital, sud the bonefits to bo gained so ?m“' as to give the highost oncuum%nmunt to all thoao who aro hm\enfiy sooking to bring about theso groat and much-nesded reforms. v It muat also bo borno in mind that the posed roforms appeal diroctly to the wholo people of tho country, to all classos, oxcopting only the mono{mllntu and -thoir slouth-hounds, tha corrupt politicians; and that, thorofore, tho snopln, enlightened by honorable and_truthful iscussion, will goo to it that the work is thor- onxhly done. re you, my follow-citizons, willing to enlist for tho war?~ Will you exhibit to thouo corrupt mou who have brought us to thia strait, and to the world, tho powor of tho g JUST INDIGNATION OF TIIE PEOYLE ? Thoe wumbor and varioty of topics prossing upon our attontion,. and tho intricncy of the quostions involved in tho proper consideration of most of them, make it impossiblo to disouss thom satisfactorily within the limits of such an sddrosaas this; = | ; 5 Joasmuch as _tho atfention of yourselves and tho peoplo of this portion of the State was tirat directod to a cousiderution of tho relations of tho railroads to tho public, and the methdd by which the State could properly rogulate tho chnr;ieu on railroads, #o s to provent unjust discrimination and oxtortion- for transporting .persons and property, I shall confine what I have urther to sny to you to'thiy tng}lo. Tha valuo to tho peoplo of this State, and the cvuntry at largo, of ralironds honestly constructed an oporated 88 promoting tho goneral * wolfaro, mo' ono now sooks to quostion. Nor is it - belioved - to truo- that the renl intorcsts of the peoplo and of railroads-aro in auywise in conflict. No just-minded man desires” that capital actually and properly oxponded in the coustiruction of railroads aliould fail to return fo the owners theroof a just and ronsonablo interest upon such investmont, ovor and above tho propor oxpouses in maintaining ‘and oporating them. DBut tho people hiave baon, and now aro,’ BUIJECTED TO A DOULLE BURDEN by noarly all the railroads, Ono of thoso grows out.of the fact that the nominal cost of the roads is vory largoly in ox- cess of thoir actunl cost; and this is truo bo it although that wcost is estimated upon the baals of actual cash subscriptions to stock nand tho roceads of mort- page-bonds sold at consfdorable discount. In addition to this, stocks have been issued by way of dividends, and to " capitalizo oarnings,” ns it is styled by railroad mauagers. This, in brief, means that thoso railroad companiey which havo mado oarnings great enouglr to onable the pay- mont of maintenance and oporating exponsoes, interest on their bonded dobts, and to pay divi- deuds on their stock, and also construct brauch- linos, aud make improvoments in the oapacity of their ronds,—which latter items aliko bolong o construction, . MUST HAVE CIAROED UNREASONADLE RATES to havo accomplistied so much, It is admitted that, by the common law, un- derlyiug such privilogen as could bo coustitu- tionally grantod to the rairond corporations of the country, tho charges of a common carrier must bo roasonable, and without unjust dis- crimination ; thereforo, overy dollar exponded by tho railroad companies of the United Statos ot of their esrnings upon the work of construc- tion, after paying maintonance and operating oxponses, and rengonablo interest bo the aclual capilal investod, has been taken wecrotly and fraudently from thoe peoplo, k "I'hoso accrations of value to the ronds, in their increased capacity, after an sccumulstion of years, have boon m{rohly thrown into the pookets of tho stockholdars by un ‘iasuo of stock to rop- rosont tho value thus secretly accumulatod from oxcenslve oarnings, tho result of UNREASONATILE AND EXOESSIVE RATES. The New York Contral Railroad has more than 100,000 per mile of this secrotly-oxtorted money now embraced in its represeutod capital. Various mothods of eracting fictitioua capital into tho attitude of actusl monoy exponded ara employed, but always with tlio same result so far ng. lha&aonln aro conoernod ; and also mort- age bonds Lavo boon, aud are being, fraudu- ently disposed of, ) * Inthis nay, the Bum upon which earnings aro now to bo made, and interest and dividends paid, is yory largoly anqynmmd abova the true oost of the roads. ~ It is impossible to atato with nccuracy, from any siatistics bofore the public, what thio amount of suoh excess ia; but it is be- lioved by those most compatont to judgoe, that, on tho railrosds in thia State, tho amount is not less than EIGHTY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, Can wo roalizo tho magnitude of this enor- mous sum ? Let us put 1t in form so as to enable ourgelves to do 8o in some degreo.. For ossy computation, wo will say tharo aro 100 countles in Illinois. 1f each county embraces an avorago of 15 townships, 6 milos squard, it would givoin all the Stato 1,600 :ownegufia. ‘Which is probably very near the truth. Eighty millions of dollars divided by 1,600 makes tho averago amount of fictitioug dobt for oach township oqual $58,333,—enough to build and complete 63 comfortablo farm-houses in overy township in {hio Btato, and, in tho whoto Stato, 80,000 houson bottor ¢ the average farm-houses of Illinois, Tho aggrogato of -such excessivo nomwinal cost In tho United Btatos may be safoly estimated to oxceod B800,000,000, equal to EIGHT UUNDRED THOUSAND TOME! comfortablo homes for 5,000,000 poople, Ou this onormous nowinal cngiul, or; asitls commonly desiguated, '‘ watered utook,” whigh ropresouts actually nothing, dividends aro sought to bo made by ralway-managers, aud,-to a con- sidorable nxtnu“ they bavo hitherto succecded i dofug so. To accomplish this end, railronds must necosuarily charge unreasonablo snd extor~ tionato rates, and, uuless restrained, will con- tinuo forover to uui:ject the people to the same Bupposo Cornollus Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and gomno othor high reprosontativos of railrond cu- pidity, had, by a smglo resolution, placed & dobt of §800,000,000 upon’ tho pocple of the Unitad Btates, and sont ont their llsuula to collact the intereat lnm.llllfi forover. Would you pay your proportion ?. 'Lhis is procisoly what has beon done, only it has crept on by steaithy dogroos. The rallroad-uystom, undér propor contral, as & now manifostation of powor and usofulnoss, is grand slmost beyond human, concoption,—but not grauder than torrible, If it takes the form of & % BLINDLY-SELFISH AND UNRESTRAINED OTANT,— an immonso vampire, spreading. over all this fair Jaud, fapping from tho peoplo their long-cLer- ishod hopes of renl and enduring liborly, and wrosting from thom tho God-given blespings of this, our boloved country. ' P'o socure complote reiief, then,—and we can- not afford to adopt half-mensures,—tho first wark to-bo done is to ascertain tho actunl and equitablo cost of each railroad, having due ro- ard for the rights of tho poople and fat without ragard to tho ability of the railrond 10 mako onrnings onabling tho paymont of diyi- donds on fict{tious stock, or’ intorost on fraudu- lont bondod debt, Until this just basis ia ob- " tainod, satisfuctory rates canuot be acourately outablished, It will be-quite enough it the people consont to pay tithes perpotualiy npon the.costs resuit- hfl{ from improvident aud bad mansgomont, in addition to Sm nocossary charges for construot- ing thoir railways, Upon such o valuation tho proporty of railroads should bo taxed tho samo an individual cltizens, and from their not oarn. ingn they ahould bo pormitted to pay ONLY REASONADLE INTEREST OR DIVIDENDS, a8 for monoy loaned, They must also be ro- quired to obsorve strics economy in their man- sgoment, and promps and cheerful obedioncs to llui l)lwn‘ N Tho second burden Imposed by the railroads, Lofora alluded to, -arluo pnnt of the excossive charges and_ {rrogular and unjust discriminge tious, eupacially in tho transportation of freight. o entor upon this hranch of tho subject in de- tail would uccupy moro time than I have at my disposal, and would involve au array of statistios and figures more than the human memory could rotain, and would bo of littlo praotical vsun on such an oceanlon ad this. Ono striking illugtra~ tion, gonerally applicable, will sufiico : ‘The rocent rato upon first-class frelght from the City af New York to Bloomington, in this' Btate, about 1,000 miles, al the way by rail, has boen 80 to 60 conts per 100 pounds, or an averago of 8 milla per ton por mile, ~ At {ho samo titno, the rate from Ohi. ¢ago to Bloomington via the Chicago & Alton ory. - e S +)Théro will, then, from' the* yory mMot‘rbu L <Railroad, for tho snmo_class of Afrolg\qt, & dige, tanca of 127 milew, was G8 conts por 1 U.pomn!u, sorabout 9 conta and 1 mill per ton per milo, ‘—- moro than * gk i .© SLEVEN TIMES GREATER OHANGE. . ° Tho merchants of Chlcngo may well- complaln of such oxconsivo differonce in rates, an deatruc- tive to their business ; Lut it {a not tho recent Iaw that has produced this injury Lo Chicago, as hins beon ntated. Ui viclous condition of ratos has oxisted subatantislly for many yoats,—tlio firlcu for lrmmrortmg merchandiso from tho uoa- onrd oition bofng fraquontly loss than Lo prico charged for the same frelght from Chieago to tho BaMO pointa, ol Ono of two thlnziu mtst bo Lruo; oithor that tho through rates from tho seaboard cities to the interior of Illinols and adjacent country aro rr tly too low to bo romunorative, or thnt the ocal rates from Chiengo to tho samo points aro oppressive and oxtortionato. f the former bo truo, then tho loss upon the trousportation of through goods must be made up by oxcossive charges upon local tranaporta- tion; and tho Iatter is thoreforo nhnrgm’l‘, not only with {ta ressonablo cost, but also with the burdon'of the loss occasioned by an unjuat dis- crimination sgainst Ohicago in fayor of its rival soaboard citios. ¥ Although primarily tho injury thus produced may bo #sid to be boruo by Chicago and other intorior cition, yot, in the ond, the lossos fall upon thie consumers of tho goods, and upon TI{E. PRODUGERS OF TIIE KTATE, ‘whose praducts are chargoed with oxcessive rates for local servico and for transportation in vocks ing market, to make good tho lossos occasioned by such,fif they are, unronsonably low ratos, "The googtaphical powition of Chicago ordina- rily guarnutoos cheap rates for transportation to sud from that point by natural lines of trausit, It18 & gront commercial contre by remson of thoso advautagos tho influence of which, ina groat dogroo, controls the rates chargod by the railronds which oentro there, Dut, if all other points at tho West are to have low rates equal to Chicago, and, to mako good tho losses on such low ratos, extortionato chargos aro made on local trnlghts,—pmduotu - going to sud merchandise shippod ffom_Chica- go,—tho offoct will soon bo apparent. Indoed, tho sorlons results upon Obicago and this Btato of tho vicious freight systom during the- past ten yoars can bo quite cloarly apprebended by sy intolligont porson who will take the time to consider tho subject, The local ratos within this Btate for irans- porting articles of prime necossily, such ns fuol, lumber, stone, agricultmal products and impinmuntu aro from throo to ten, and oven twonty timea greater por ton per mile than tho raten on highor ‘classos of freight to and from tha ‘sonbonrd Btates. It is quito clenr that nll kinds of articlea manufoctured at the East aro brought hore by rail st unremuncrativo 1ates, and aleo grain shipped to tho astern Stntos by rail at n foss, elso tho local charges on lho roads in Iilinols, aud all tho States, aro QUTRAGEOUSLY WRONGFUL AND EXTORTIONATE, If the first bo truo, it prosonts an unjust and vastly injurious discrimiuation against Chicago, and Bt. Louis, and the whote Northwest, in favor of the manufncturing Btatos at the East, sus- tained by extortionate local rates, If tho ratoes of freight charged by the railroads 'wora raagonable and just,—an equal charge for the Bnmo sorvice, as a mfo, baged ou n just and equitable scalo,—and such as would, if proper, in the aggregate produco to the railroad-compa- nies of the country tho same amount of gross oarnings aa they unow receive, the offect of tho chiango and equalization would bo to reliove the people of this and other Btates from tho burdens imposed by oxtortionnto local charges, and from an artificial competition with tho kast, croated by rates which are mow in the intorest of that soction of the country, * It would, ina short Imoa of time, dovelop tho various intorosts and manufactures now ao complotely reprogsed by theye discriminations. Buch a condition would at ouce incrense, and &oon groatly add to, the population and wealih of this 8tato,—enchauco tho value of Iands and products through tho influonco of home-markets, Tho producer and conrumer would stand faco to faco, aud Clueago would have TIE DENEFIT OF ITH NATUNAL ADVANTAGES, oy greatly impaired by the wrangful conditiona existing, Illinois poesensos many great facilities for car- rying on mannfacturiug succossfully, and no sound repson chu bo givan why they should bo reprossod by continuing the vicious froight-ratea which bavo oxistod in the past. Certainly no reasons can bo prosented of sufiiclont force to Justify us in tamely submitting thdt those ad- vautagos should remain dormant, to satisty eithor tho folly or cupidity of tho raifrosd and othor monopolists, ‘Wo caunot bo satisfled to havo our State thus conflnod almost exclusively to corn-raising and only othor agricultural pursuits, R Jrontor bonefits are proporly duo to us, and wo must nob lack the manliness to demand, so- cure, and proserve them. The lmportance of Chioago to tho wholo. people of this Siate -and ihe Northwent, under an acourate commercinl oquilibrium, * CANNOT DE OVFIESTINATED, TIts prospority is, in a groat measuro, the pros- ority of tho Stato at largo. Whon it suffers, tho Elnm suffers ; and any system of mauagement by the great trosieportatior-agacien which discrim- inatos against Chicago aud chooks its prosperity, is injurionsly folt throughout tlio whole Stato and Northwost, . ' Anothor ovil, more widely diffused than that Just montionod relative to Clucago, grows out of systom of unjust discriminations, almost uni~ vorsal on tho railroads, prior to tho recont legis- Iatlon, botween the small towns and - villages along tho railroad-lines. Places situated. at railrond-crossinge whore competition existed aid much lower ratos thun werp prid in. piacos | ‘flmng tho ndvantngo ouly of o singlo lino. This ovil has, to somo oxtont, boen remodied by the rocent logislation on that subjoct, and o docision of tho Suprome Court in tho quo warranto caso in MeLean County againat tho Chicago & Alton Reilroad Compnny. Although this evil has beon partially relievod; yot it still exists in some degroo. : ‘The people of tho ‘Binte of Illinols, by their | Conatitution of 1870, aftor soyeral yoars of pa- tiont remonstranco with tho railrosd companios, and, to the same ond, making most liboral con- tributions for the purposo of constiucting com- poting lines of- railroad, which wero no sooner -comploted than consolidated, were finnlly Zorcod to take tho initiatory step to sooure tho JUST CONTROL OF TILE STATE over the railroads, . i It was by that Conntitution declared that all railronds were public higluways, and it was mado the duty of tho Logislaturo to provids by law sgainet all ‘oxtortions and unjust discrimination “in the tranaportation of persous and proporty. Tho Legislaturo in 1871 passed laws in obe- dience to those constitutiousl provisions, and creatod ® Board of Railrond and Warehouse Commissioners to auperviso thoir oxecution. Trom the boginning, the rallroad-companios havo duuburatul{ disrégarded aud st a4 doil- anco the anthorily of the Btate, and refused obedienco to tholaws. In 187 the Logislature again passad Iaws on this subjoot, amonding and niodifying tho laws of 1871, ‘Thoko laws havo na rot beon_only oboyed colorably—nat at all in {nunr aud spitit ; and, undor pretoxt of con- formity with the laws, the railroad-compaunios Lave, on the whole, LARGELY INOREARED THE NURDENA boforo resting on the peoplo. This is the con- dition in which wo now find ourtolves. It ro- ‘mains ouly for the people of the' Btato to meot with proper firmness tho quostion” forced upon them: Which is tho wmunstor, sud which the sor- vant? ¢ Home porsons, dospairing of being- ablo to control theso gront enrflmutwm by State anthor- ity, and others, probably sooretly in tha interost of tho roads thomselves, have proposed to apply to tho Congress of the Unitod Statos Lo exercite tho puwer conforred upon it by the Conatitution to regulate commerco botween the soversl Statos, so 88 to subjeot thowo corporations co national control. This romody, if suck it maybo callod, is of vory doubtful utility, nor daca the recent logislation of Congress oy kindred sub- jocts commend it to our confldence, It would ‘soom us though wo woro siready under a provis- ioual nilrond-nml)im, and to throw a subject of such vast extent and intricate omn{xhcntmus, backed by intorosts of like nature, and such im- mense wealth and subtle powor, wholly jilo’ the houds of Congressf would bo victually to abau- don all attompt at control and 1 . ACCEPT A UAILROAD-EMFIRE. Tt us, therefore, ropist this tendency to the Jast, and nnllv nccupl the alternative proposed whon com?e lad todo so, Tear in mind tho ro- cent exhibitions of want of intogrity in Con- gross, and thon considor that su agscssment of - 1 por cent por sunum on the present railroad- oapital of tho. country will producoe §45,000,000, ‘T'his enormous sum for Annual lns:lulullva usw, it is fair to prosume, judging by tho past, would bo quito sufliciont Lo provent “unfriondly legisla. tion ; or, in other words, It would securo such rates as the rnllrnnd-monuruhutu might think thoy could succeed iu extorting from tho pooplo, ‘Thoas considerations, though so incomplotely prosonted, seem to roquiro of thoe peoplo IMMEDIATE, THOROUGH, AND INDEVENDENT ACTION, that they may, if poesible, socuro servants in groat prufzoudurumo upon whoso Intogrity thoy mny safoly roly, lntofimy {8 tho only Fn\vor that can ba suo- cosufully opposed to capital, and, unless we can command i¢, thero is no ground on which to base our hops for a flual and glorious Auccess for our forwm of govoruwout, Tho davger which mons .acof -us I8 not an imaginary one, It is porton- us and rosl, | sut fow whoaro not willfully blind can fail 1o aeo it ahadow’; it s #o dark ay olmost to e felt,~Lat s, thon, pledgo ottraclvos - that Iilinols shall bo, e sho over hna boon, onp of the trusted watch-tosors of Liborlyl 3 EVANSTON. Action of the Villnge Directors on Horsc-itatlwny' and Witer=Works NMatters=~Xhe Universitys=tlarringo Of Mr. Colfins and Miss iZobb. Tho Toard of Trustees for thin villago met Tuoedsy ovening. . Presont, Presidont Gilbert, and Monars, Willard, Qago, Powers, and C, K. Banniator, Clerk of tho Loard, & D TIORRENAILWAY, Tho petition of tho Evauston Horte-Railway Com- pauy for tho right of way on. tho centro lineof Bhor- man avenu,: from tho ‘sonthiorn to the northorn boundary lincs of tho village, was Toported upon by tho Commiitoo on'Btreots and Alloys, which recom- monded thiat tho Bonrd of Trustees ordor an ordinanco containing provistons -as follows: “That tho Evans- fon Horso-Nallwsy Company shsll completa that porifon of tho road commenclog ot its intorsoc- tion with Davla stroot; thouco morth ‘on Bhorman avenuo to {ls northern ' terminus, on or beforo tho oxpiration of six montha from tho passngo of this or- dinunco, and tho romafning section of the road within tlirco yoars ; that tho road bo stocked with suflicient Doreca”and appurtonnuces ; (hab tho cars borun to connoct with oach and overy passongor {rain stopping at he Northweatorn Raflroad’s depotin Evauston ; that tho cars bo run without futorruption during tho torm for which tho right of way I8 ssked—twonty years ;+thiat, to securo tuo pormationt servico of thig cars In tho ntercat of tho public, s ponsl bond of 0,000 aball Lo oxucated to tho town ; Rl bond slisik duc and payablo on demand aftor thirty duys neg- lect or rofusal of the sald Compauy to run their cars o epocified in the ordiuanco ; that tho faro shall not ox~ ceed 8 conta for cach adult person.” THE WATEL-WORRS, The- following rouolution wos passeds **That tho Presilont of tho Board of-Triintoes bo suthorized to clonp, without deisy, o contract with somo_ responsible Porson or porsons for the immedisto construction of a crib, to bo locatad near tho pler, u the Villiga of Ly anaton, the- prociss location to bo detormined at tho discrotion of the Water-Works Committoo; said criby and suction-pipe to bo constryotod socording to_plana and pecifications- furnishod ' tha Board by E, B, Ho-: quembourg: Provided, That the contract prico {o bo agreod upoh skiall bo pryablo in bouda of this villago at par; that tho Water-Works Committoo bo instruct- 1o 'Invite proposals for tho construction of &0 cngino-house, smoko-stack, and foundations for mlchlllc? to bo focated on the lake-shore, botween “Davis aud Ohurch stroots, thy sumo to bo commenced ot once; and prosecuted with dlspateh.? 1 - THE NORTHWESIZN UNIVERSITY oponeil the yonr- with a full corps of professors, and grestiy-augmonted classcs, Tho University Lus beon wlightly modifiod, aud tho Iaborstory hins bigen stocked ‘with uumerous modorn inventions and appllances cale culatod toald the professors in giving iustruction, ‘The admission ls n’ro;dy doublo that of any provious yoar, and under proacnt auspices u auccosaful year is oxpeuted, Garrett Liblical Institute opoun withi every Fuom flléd, and numerotis npplicants aro compelled to tako rooms'in privata fumil HYMENTAL, A goodly audionco sssombied in the Molbodtst Church yestarday morning, and ono that included the beat Ym’t of Evauston soctoty, Thu occasion wae tho marriago of Mr, L. O, Collins, Jr., and Miss Nollio Robb, both of whom have gniuail the high ustocm of numarous frionds during a long Teaidonco in Evans- aton, “At 11 o'elock tho bridal party srrived, and pavscd up thé alala in tho following order, stiriating the admiration of all beholdor: Goorge E, Bragdon, Evanaton, aud Aiss Dollo Abell, Chicago': Claronco It. Taul, Evauston, and Miss Lols Martin, Waukegan ; ML D. Iimball, Greon Bay, aud Miss' Garrie Colllns: Goorgo Lunt, Chicago, And Miss Ells. A. Robb, Park Ridge; Glbert Hubbard, Esq,, Winuotks, with tho ‘bride; and the groom with Lis mother, The ceremo— ny waa solemnized by tho Iov. L, 0, Collins, of Nor- ‘wood Park, father of the Jroom, assistod by the Kov. Dr. Raymond, o sorvice was brief, tho most noticosblo foaturs being tho cloar and distinct responses made by both partios, At ita closo the party loft tho church in re- Teruo ordor, and ropaired to tho residonce of Mr. It. P, Lunt, rothor-indaw of tho bride, wharo con- {"“‘"'"“'" swere showéred upon the happy couplo, and ho rost of the party partook of an elegant cotlatlion, beautiful than brides al. Tho brido waa much -more ways aro, whilo e, bridegroom Jooked proud, Labis, and Uandsome, o8 It wad moot ho phould, M, and Mrs, Collins loftEvanaton o an aftornoon train, and started -upon a trip in tho contro of (ho Btato, Ifitho romainder of their woddod life iaas prosporous, and _happy os the first day, the fullest ‘wishes of tholr many frionds witl bo gratitied. In the evening, Mr. O, R. Psul ontertained the par- ticipauts in the coromony and o fow invited friends at Lis houso, ‘The occasiun was mado plensnnt by the presenco of g0, many former studeuts, who wora afforded an opportunity to renew old acquaintances, ki ek EXPOSITION NOTES, A Varicty of ‘Busincss Transncted by the Exccutive, Committce—IRonds ‘That Will Givo Reduced Rutovssd “Poyt? Canurd Exploded. Tho Executive Committeo of the Exposition mot yostorday afternoou about 4 o'clock; presont, Mosars, Bouton, Goge, Laflin, Boyington, Gruno, Brown, and Drake, = O motlon tho proposition of Cook, Coburn & Co. 40 ndvertise 4n thelr Hst of pupers was accopted, An order was made o cstablish ticket-oilices at each and of thio butlding and at tho main entrance, The architect wan also nstructod to eroct storm doors at all tho matu entrances, : "Tho Treasuror was fustructed to procurs $50,000 ad- ditional insuranco on tho building, msking $100,000 inall, . . On'motion, it was ordered that,all watchmen bo sworn inas spocisl policemen and furnished with Ladges, - ; Mr, Crane Was suthorized to put gas futo tho un. nexes, Doy T . 1t was ordored that all threshing-mischines bo placad in tho annozos, and be furnished with power, T'ho Exccutiva Committeo wish all uxhibitors who have boon allotted space to bring along thoir wares aud place them In the bullding immodiately, as,other- wiso, tho oponing.will bo delayed aud tho success of tho Exposition endangored. . Those who aro late iu forwarding their sriicios may possibly find thelr spaco Gcouptod by some moro entorpriaing vxhibitor. T Committea on Trausportation reportad that tho following raflrosia have agreed to curry pamcngors ono day in each wook. toand from tho_Expoaftion at ono faro .and oue-ffth: Ohlcago, Burlington & Quincy; Liinola Central, Rock. Island & Tacifio, and -Olsfeago &°Alton, - Tho fountain it tho contro of tho builaing is nearly .comploted, and will bo of similur design to the muallor Vernalion tountaine, a main jot fu tho contre and o numiber of small fots playing scroaa from the cdges, “Eho Art Department {5 nourly fufshid, snd s goon 2a tho paint. 18 dry the walls will bo really for thelr ,oruaments, . . i - "hero scoms no reason tn doubt that the bullding will bo ready n timo, and, if the exhitdtors will bo rea- sonably prompt, everything will Lo carried out nccord- iug to programine, 5 OAID FHOM THE COMMITTER, Orrron oF INTER-STATE INDUSTIIAL EXPOSITION, -Cn10400, Bept. 17.—Au articls appeared Ju tho /'ust of this oveniug stating that it was auggested to postponio {0 openiuy of the Kxposition uutii Oct, 9. The Coum- ‘mittes, by s-unanimous vote tuis afternoon, decided that the opening should tuke plsce Bupt. 25, -and holdars of -apace will yloaso take duo’ notice, It rogurd to tho ‘railronds, the Commilttes will bo ablo. to aunounce | ‘through'tho differcut dallea thelr auccess, which at 118 1o looks fuvorable for excursion tralns or re- ducod faro, For Conunitice, N. 8. Bourox, Chsirman, —— ‘. HOW HE DOES IT, Tho great disarganizor, Mark Sherldan, is 50 anzious to domoralizs the police foreo, that not only does -ho leave'no atcus unturned to injuro the Buporiutendont anit other oMcery, but whoti fcts which cau bo dise tortod &r not obtalunble, Lo manufactures etatoments out of wholo'clofh, The other day Lo gave Mayor Boud' o Ust of witncesca ' who, he_ sald, wero willing” to testify aguinst Cupt, Lull,’ This list cortaingd the’ mawiea of ' many disroputa- Dlo porsous, and alko o numbor of roapectablo -people, whoin Lull's friendd wero aurprised 10 noo arjayel againat him, A carefulluquiry has dovel- opod the fact that ncithor Sherldan nor Lis bosom frlends, * Do ” Folter and the ronegade Policoman Flannigan, hud the leaut authority to publish tho fole lowing namca_of perécna on tho list of wilnosses 1 Ald, ‘Goorge Powoll, ox-Ald, J, A. Montgomery, Qlatlos Hale, Jawiea Apploton, Georgo Applotosi, Frank P. Dodd, Harry Watking, Loficeman Augustus Bwane , L, Ruthgarbor, 14’ Cunniugham, Abe Pollock, and Marcus MeLatu,” It scoma the Bridgoport Dictator Lad Fisunigan and Felkor out ull dwy Baturday trylug to drum up porsaus who could tell something deroga tory to Capt, Lull, Failing to fud such testimony, tuey mndo up the ilat publishod i Tucsday's Tusun: No doubt 100 more liko Madamo Rudolph, Jobn Dinno- combe, Jr., Leo, and otliet proatitutes and pimpa could bo fouiud Wi Would toutfy sainst Lull bt oo wera not the witnessen wanted, To seetiro men of character was Bhoridan's purpose, and, falling lu thi, o manufactured o st — ‘ 3 ‘To-day’s Bale, Wo beg to call nttdntion to- the salo of real estate to b mado by us this aftornoon, The property in locatod only two blocks north of Humboldt Tark, enst of the Boulovard, balf-n-milo west: of - Milwaukoo aventry within ono block of Humboldt Depot, on the Ohilcago & Pacifio Rallroad, Culiforni avenuo han beon apeni~ ¢d snd haudsomely gradod by Honry Groenchaurn, Esq, 1t 1 the caut lino “of Humboldt, Central, und Dutglss Yarks, aud will bo the principal drlve cohnocting these groat ' Parks in tho W vision, Tho sulo s pers gauplory, and wil bo wado at our oy enl estato room, in Hawloy’ Building, cornor of Doarboru nud Madison stiucls, at d a'olock D, 1o, todsy, Wm, A, Builors & Ca, Auctionoors t ——— Yesterday's Oonflagration, We are sdvinod by Treadway & Jowall, insurauco mgents, who roprosout tho following Companies, viz ; Tyoouing, Gorman, Toru, aud Plunters', with capital snd asmts smounting to oyer sevon million dollars ($7,000,10), that they will loso about ten thousand ollars $10,000) by the oxtousive conflsgration of yoatordal, ‘Wo nued only romind tho {nuuting publio of the mmnor in which iha aboye gontlemen attendod f0 thu lossw of the groat A0 of Oclober 1y /ME FREE-LOVE CONCLAVE. ‘Second Day of the Wational Association of Spir- -itualists. Majority and Minority Reports of the Commitico on Reso~ Tutions, The Former, Being the Most Frec- Lovish of the Two, Is Adopted, Women Givo Disgusting Personal Expori- onces, and Vio with tho Men in Tmpurity of Speech. FORENOON SESSION, Bpiritualism Liad o merry houso-warming yesterdey. At tho sppolntad hour of opentng, yesterday morning, Grow's Opora-Louso was crammed with pooplo, and the Bpiritualistq wont immediatoly to work in a busl- noss-lie manner, to constder tho rolativa moritsof tha Countitutfons propared,—one by & majority, tho other by & minority, of the Committes on Resolutionn, Groat futerest, was taken in the proceedings by all present, as upon tho rocoption accordod to the Consti- “tutfons hung tho fato of tho’ rédpactivo partiea whoso viows they ropresontod,—tho Ohleago Spiritunliats, puro and simple and undefilod, and the Woodhull fac- tion, whoso dootrines havo alfendy becn mado public. As tho peculior teueta of tho Ohleago Spirituniiats havo ngk yot been made publie, (ho following._reaolu- {tionn, doclaring thetr.croad, .8ro published : . “Wo molntain on true: First—That man, in hin na- turo fmortal, capable, and desirous of endiess growth and happiuces, contiuties to Livo aftor the death of thy ody, an a aplrit in a_spleit world, with subjective and abloctive maliios, graatly annidgous (o iy world undor law unchanged and unchangeablo. .U Eecond—Thnt tho spirit world In noat and_around ‘183 that tho epirits, (tho ““angols” of pust nges) oxkib- it themnolves to, and _communo with us, giviug dom- onstrations in nisnifold ways, in dogreo proportionsto to thelr powor, our conditions to recolve,and our prosont needn; but pufliciont to_ satiafy and ‘couvinco tho candid fnquirer that they can and will givosid and counsol fin_any dopartment of thin lifo, and especially will and do fnstruct as to tho roality aud couditions of the lifo that 18 to bo, “ Phird—Thnt, sccording to our intuition, our reason, and tho fevolations 5o mado, tho pirit world 4 uatlral ; thut the religiou sud moral oloments of man, n_conatitution and action, aro as natural as hig intelleotual ; that tho absorvuncs of tha triie, tha tight ond tho good, and _thelr non-obucrvanco (virtuo und vice, righloousiioss and_sin), inevitably, by Nzed faw, produco their aaturl offoct—a bigher of a lower htats of happinoss, and capnclty to enjoy; and bonee ol that will produce a bottor condition’should Lo cone atantly sought for, and all elso carcfully avolded, “ Fourth—That the Divino Spirit, tho Great Firat Caupo, though nbovo our thought und expresston, iy supremmo in lovo, power, wiadom, and Justice ; that ‘alt mankind aro our brethren ; that it I8 our chlef_duty, 851t should bo our groatost’ pleantire, {0 show towar each other tho nttribtcs of our cominon Father, and mmhs advanco tho right, repress the wrong, sud pass _onward and upwazd o boltor conditions aud o Lighor 0. “ Fifth—That tho soul, the fatallect, ond tho con- sclence ahould bo freo to determine what fu truth ; that all sourees of knowledgo should bo opon to critica inveatigation ; that tho learning of all the past, tho “teachings of tho wiao of all ages, npon eithor plaiie of bolng, mortal or angolic, (ncluding wil tho sacrod ¥, Brabminle, Buddlistic, Parscean, Sybilline, Jowishi, Ohiristinn, Mobamusdah, Bwedenborgian, an Bpiritunlistic, though thoy may bo profitable for fu- striiction aud doctifne, should ot bo receivod as un- quostioniod suthorlty, bt ouly ae thoy, by their inc | trinsic merits, produce to’ the unblakod Juigment o conviction of 'truth ; and that individual nction slso sliould bo freo, 0 far a8 not faconsiatent with tho pub. o good v s corollaries, of the following propositions (tho moro claarly to deflio our position s to the pro- Talling thoologios of tho dus), wo mulatain also- nog- ativel —~T}iat thero s no permonal devil, nor any power of evil antagoniatic to the positivo power of wod; all ovil, no-caliod, - belng the Iessor good, or tho ailure of perfect good, aud all demonino or evil apirita being tho apirits of mortals not. ot dovoloped to the staudard of goodness, Ly which we judge thom, ¢ Second—That the doctrine of the forgiveness aud remission of sfns through bloody sacrifics, and all tho dogaag based upon tife, oo aubstantially untruo ; while, nevertholcus, it in truo that tho world 1s blessod Dy tho teachings uud the oznmplo of thoso who givo tliclr lfo to tho aupport of the truth ; and it js somo- timos true that the sinful, by high resolvo and per- elstont effort, psas out from thelr sina till they be ro- membered no more, *Phird—That tho Jowish and Ohristian Bibles aro not plenarlly Inspired, nor aro wo under obligation to ‘believe and receive more of them thah our fréo reason and nnblased judgment can aceupt and adopt o8 truo *and valuable ; whilo we may admit that they aro moro full of spiritual truths and sentiments thun auy other snclont books, and were, 84 to soma purts and_some extont, writton under au inspiration from thosq spirita who ttion communed with thoso It the earth-life. “ Fourth--That no miracles are wrought by tho suspension of natural Inw, nor by the power of ~Deity spoctally iterposcd, diredtly or ‘Indisetly, and that all pretunded histories of such in oby age are aa to the roality untrue; whilolt{s truo that mony facts of every ngo, and ‘mora than any othor of this age, are rocninigly againat tho luws of nature, an commionty understood, but not so in fact; such lawa Dbe- ing full, porfect, univorsal, harmonious, and( un- ‘ehingesblo, and overy fact snd truth, wlien rightly Xknown snd undorstood, boiug always conejatont witl every other fact and truth iu ull tho univorso. 4 Fyfth—That thero will be no resurroction of tho body ; that death does not introduce us to o chango- loss state of happiness or misery ; that thero will bo no general Judgment farin the futuro to be read out of o “book of life,” wheroby a limitod heaven will bo awarded to thoso who have accepted certain dogmns, aud aboll to thao who havo ot ; Lut, on tho cun trary, that death luys away tho matorisl body leaving the #piritual, and introdnces to o higher aud better stato, whure thore is continual judgment out of the record of life, and where esch one, unalded and un- trammelod by croed, is freo, ne ho ls capable, to fiud 4 heaven, puch s s aspiradions aud galiics cutiilo him to réceive, and enablo in to eujoy,” Tho strugglo botween tho believers fn these doctrines and the Woodnullites was long and severe, ending in a result that 1 recorded below. ‘Lo first seusation of the ddy was ‘a “fros-love sermon by Mr, 8, &, Pope, of Grand Rupidd, after which Mra, Soveranco handled tho ReliginPhilosophical Journal without glovos, né- curing its oditor, 8, B, Jonvs, with being » Woodhullits in practico, and ending hor pecch with the seutiment “ Give mo honasty or give m hell," Bomo littlo debato theu occurred with regard to tha nattonsl Presidentiol chiuir, o Mrs. Stearn expressing a sl that Mrea, Sovorance should fill that posiuon ‘whtlo Mra, Woodbull was sent ws Minister to England, W, M. Loomis, of Battle Croek, declarod thut * Woode hull'or Fuln” was his battloery,' - ¢+ - Just hiero o shrill ery was hoard on ono of tho galles rlen, sud turning (o the spot with ono ccurd, (Lo aus dletico behold o Iady waving a chart on whickl were in- rcribed thuwords, % The Unitod S:ates Chreli Tlend- quarlors! Wo Bpiritualista sra vrganized upou the rquaro in the namo of Lord the Mother, God thy Tathor, Ghrist the Son, und Soul the davghter 11, Mure Tlag! ' No divoreo!! 'No socond murriagel1” - - *'Tuls fncondiary and rather neomprehousiblo chdrt Daving been duly scauned and understood according 1o the taste of cach, Miss Laurs Cuppy Smith made s speech {n which sl conceded thal poor male humanity had somo rights wtch wowen shoild rospect, Miss Louto Walsbrotber, editress of o paper called Our. 4ae, t, Battlo Creck, mudo u dead-tet for the sube weelbers of tha Heligio-Ifilosophical Journal, ndorsed tho Woodbiull, sud'wouud' up -un_excellont’ business offart with o prolonged sunthoma cast upon the re- porlors, - The bueinces of the meeting then commenced, Col, Blood taking In haud the vendlug of the Constitution s prepared by a majority of i weniburs of tho Conie mittes on Resolutions, : . Durlug tho reading of the various sectlons, sach of ‘which was passed upon soparately, sumio very aerimonous dobatiug ocaurred, to roport which n fuft 18 Jmpossible, Judge Holurook, who with Mr. Tiaser, compriaod {ho-mukors of the winotlly raport, kpoko on whnost vory scction ; ils best it boing ot tho passago of tho Laal koction of the first chapdor, whon ‘hu remurked parouthetically that h did ot regard the public plat- fori us tho proper placo for the bromulgation wnd fl. lustration of tho peculiar scienco slludod to i that seation, “Thus 1L wont on untl dinner-time, Col, Blood roud & seation for conslderation, Borne- Yody apoke to udorve or disseut from 1t, and fnully 1t was put to tho audience and passed, A professfonul phrenologist made o mpeoch upon & section, aud banded the Tepurter for cxamination a pietortal roprescntatiou of Torile Clafllu’s wkull, with the biatr removed, sud tho faculties, duly located) sub- stituted instead, ' The plotorld crantum’ showed wver- sion to boquitalargely doveloped, although the poeulisr King of aversion wus not spucilicd ; gave a prominent profection at the sidoof thokull the nune of “paronty, whatovor that may bo 3 uceorded o largy apaco to soiiae tion ; dovoted a boautiful Lump at the buso of tho hiead'to amutivoness + whilo, atrauge ta uny, tho elstor quality, philoprogenttivencen, was altogetiicr neglocted,” Mind 1lla Bullot apoke on 4 dolieato subjoct, and in » pluin, unmistakably manuer showed tiat hor' ife tiud been a 1ot unfortunate one, A lady doclor 8f soventoon yours! experionco, who mado a speciulty of fewmale afscasss, testifid that in hor Orat doy' practics aho had five applications for, abartion, four of which woro mado Ly married ludivs, “Tlo [kt spoaker of tio forenoon soision, & ludy, des uonuced husbands in o ten-minuto specch, montion. {ing, na uta of spociul conjugal brutelity, tho fast (i her mother bnd gliven birth to no loss than soventeon ehitdron, whilo licr sister, when lust hoard frowm, was {hu mivorablo mother of ihiricon, Tho Convention then adjourn AFTERNOON SESSION, v, . Tho Convention reassembled &t 2 p, m,, with & largoly-tncreased sitendunco, the hull elug wulfocat, tugly poj ulons, Tho following letter, signed by fourteen forgod namen, amony thom bolnig thoso of tho propriotor of [ thin Convention & now tho Inter<Ocean, tho Tuatico of tho Eouth Bido Polic .Gourt, and fivo prostitntes, waaread, (It will bofound to by & pouscless and ungrammatical production ¢ Vieroia 0. Woopnvnt—Madam: The under- slgned, belloving as thoy do that to you belongs the eredit and glory of having hm“gum(e({lho movement I tha hutereat of knmanity which 14 destined to opena new feld_and glorlfy coming generations: and, be- eviug that by who sympathizo with your vleww, ns well nw many moro unablo toattend your leo- turoat Grow's I, Tast evenlng, wo respectfully re quost that you namo snother ovening and placo whora o il 1€ agrecablo, ropeat your lectury of lugt ovon- g, G No nction won taken upon tha letter, but it in bo- Hoved that the woman to whom it was addressed will grant tha roguest it contained, The mole nud femnalo dolegates wero then called upon to put up thelr - dollats in- order to securo voting privilegen, and, while thoy wora responding, tho ut- most disorder provailed. Tho money was pald toa sanctimonfous-looking person named Jamieson, but ho was 110l olwerved to give any rocolpta in rodurn, A remarkably audaclons woman_ namod Mrs, Sover- nuco dnvitad “thoso who ~Lore feredentinls to put them whero they would do the moat good, and tho in- vlll}xfluu ‘was rgaponded to by nbout a quartor of tho audience, Mr, Cotton, of Vineland, N, T, resnmed his romarks, which wero ruthlossly cut off ' by tho forenoon's ad~ Journment, 1o ppoko in a higlly unintelligible man, nerabout promissuity, prostitution, soduction, and other questions of a {0 nature, Lix loglo loaving tho iIntelligent listenor in doubt whother ho approvod or disapproved of tuoso socral crimos, It scomod, how. ovor, thnt Lo wasin favor of pormitting tho Intol Tov t3 govern tho snimal, for Lo ekl 80 himself, 1t gecmed also that lio twan in favor of ro- committing aue of tho resolutioun fn tha majority ro. port, though 1t wan difticult to arrivost the rosvlution o had roferonco to. A froutiumn aroso to offer o rosolution, Atisn Anude Hinman thought Lie had Lotter wait, Tho Clinir thought ko tvo, . Tho man waited, Dlim Anuio then road the nnmes of sevoral perons who bud paid thoir dollara aa delogates, and fnvited otliora to do likewlno, Exl:. response was not so flattoring as it might bavo ‘Tho Ohnir suggested that the money bo paid to tho propor parties, but ho falled to designate who thoy oro, Tho Chair inquired of tho sudlence if thoy woro in fasor of rocomunitting tho Iudolinite. reschution in accordanco with the motion of Mr, Cotton, Tho only rosponse was o call for the roading of tho oriinal rosolution. Col, Blood road it, and sald he could sce mothing wrong about it. : Tho motion £0 rocommit was lost, and tho motion to adopt carriod, {Tho noxt roiolution, donouncing Young Mow'a Christian Assoclatic tho infamy of tho naof the country, wan rond, Judyo Iolbrook wanted to know where the infamy eamo in, A man sald that Tennlo O, Claflin could fell him, if sha wantod to, - Blio didn't want to, preforring to walt until evon- ing, Col. Dlood also declined to explatn, - - Mr, Jamieson jumped into the breach with sevoral dollura in dues between his fingers, Io safd tho Young Man's Christian Associstion Boclotles wore organizd for tho purposo of ovorthrowing roligious Uberty and uudormining the foundations of our ropublican governtent, ns lald by the Revolutionary futhers, iisscn greetod tho clora of his remarks, : Juidgo Lolbrook confonsed he couldu't seo the polut of Mr, Jomieson's explanstion. What was tho fn- famous lllum}:t alluded to in the- resolution? Why not make it all infamous attompts? He moved that 88 an amendment, aud it was sdopted. A Alr, Cotton said tho Young Men's Chriatian Associa. tiona contained a groat deal of talont and woro working vigorously,’ Cathollcs und Protestants combined wera o formidablo power, and it was ‘time to commenco arming sgainst thom, Tho Ohristisn Associations of tho country were tho Jesuits of Protestantism, and $holr mission wns to incorporato a rocognition of God, Clirist, and the Biblo in the uational constitution., Tho Rev, Stephon 11, Tyng, of New York, had 6sid that in- fidois ind no disim to the privileges of citizena, Other promfuent Chrietiaus hnd given utterance to shilar principles, and it wus timo that Bpiritualista wero up and dolng, 2 M, Hovoranco safd all Spiritualista wora in favor of tho reslution. A gentlomari moved n mmondment that the ovan- gollcal socleties bo fncluded in tho donunciatory roso- Iutlon, Thay worked fully as mich evil g the Chris. tisn Associntions, . . “Tlhe reaolution ss nmended was passed unanimaualy, Tho next resolution, concerning childron’a pro- @rossivd lyconma, was adopted, despite the opposition of @ nun named Martin, “Che moral principles of tho soct wero thon dolivered in n toud tone by Col, Blood, aud were unanimously adoptd, tho motion and scconds belng mado in overy inatanco by womon, Tha prisiciple relating to soclal freedom and mar- ringe brought Judge Holbrook to his feet, His re- mnrks showod protty plainly that ho was no bellever in the pernicious doctrine of freo love, wnd wore greetod with loud applause by tho Christians and othor noue bellevora in the audience, He oxplained what govorn- ment meant to all_good citizons in contradistinetion to the meaning piaced upon it by the ladies aud gontlomen whom howan addresaing, - Hoshowod logic- ally and conclusively that u man could not do as ho likod if soclety was npposed to him, Soveranco, Woodhull, Clafiin, and other alderly woluen on the stage, of course, turned up thelr nosca at what tho Judge had to eay, but this did not taka away from the forcs of his remarks, Soverul other sensiblo gentlomen took the side of tho Judge in the debate, and for a timo it was a matter of dount which aido would win in tho controversy, Tho brothren and sistera rallied to tho rescue, Lowever, and the favorite fenture of the falth was rotaned, An juspired delegato uamed Pope, *assisted by the suiguls,” aa ho 4ald, ‘imado & most’ unint Aigible ad- ross. Ars, Slenrns gavo hor privato histors, which was not :‘l :lln odifylug or interesting, ‘though at times ego- stio, Mre, Laura C, Owen, an elogant-looking woman from Indisuapolis, followed suit, . ler husband had tried to slioot e, aiid iad tried ta stoal hor child, 8o pro- cuirad a divorco from him becauso ho dravk. Ho got & little bottor ufterwards, and sho married him again, Bho attumpted to buve su abortlon porformed onco, but lm]:lvllr tho thing was not successful, Khe wus now a divorced widow, and if lia over marriod ngaln IC‘WNII(J bo for love, even if .the lappy man wasa Diggor. = “I'ie majority roport of tho Committed on Resolutions ‘was then aimoat unanimously adopted, as follows : % ‘That Spiritualism is the e pluridus unwin of all re- orms, i : : . omr 1, That Spiritualism fa but another name for humani. tardaniuny, and Hs miswiona fu (aic) the solution of nil problumna’in which tho welfaro of humeulty is ln- volved, 2 ‘Th‘.\l this Convention makes tho following proposi- ons ¢ . N That tho phenomenal ora of Spirituslism has dem- onstrated the fact of continued oxistence, and that it should bo now entered upon ita practical era, That the wltimate valuo of Spirituslism couista in {fn capaclty (o bettor tho condition of {ndividuals aud ¢ Fao, . ) That the afm of Earth-lifo shonld bo not ouly the accumulation of material wealth, but also the aceumu- Iation of spiritual wealth, £ 5 ‘That whole spiritual bodiea cannot be developed in balf-made-up ot diseased human bodios. - That the basic ‘vrahlum of life 18 how tosecurqg par- fect bodies in which tho spirit may have developuient,’ ‘That perfect physicyl bodies depend upon porfect conditions-of getieration, go:tation of-growth ; and thut whilo wo Jgnore 1o quéstion’ whatover, theds are fho most important’ that humanity can consider, and fundanental to ony true spiritual sclenco; nud, thereforo, that this Convention an- noutices that, in this opiuton, (Ko first. practical wouk for Spirllualsteis to discover, udvocate, n: d practico tho seience of gonerating, gestating, and grewing chile dren, a0 that {1y tho next generation Wo may resiizo an fmproved humanity, £ B “Clint liypocrasg (sic) 48 the most: dangerous eloment of preacnt. cfvilization, and_fndividusls who profess oo system of wmorals aud practice anothor forms the 1most dangeravs class of socioty, ¥ CHAP, 11, - That ordor is the firat law of tho unlverse, Ehat orgnization f4 order expressud, = “Fiaut orgatlzation 'to Lo effoctual muat bo iatural— conntructed after tho law of evolution =’ found in nature, That Spirituallsts should organtzo; nnd that thoy, must*do o beforo uny practical -movemeut can Lo carried out, 5 s % P “Ihat tho objects for which Bpiritualiata shall organ~ izo shiould be to securo aud malutain Totgious, politi- cal, and socfal freedom, -industrial awd educstional sqgulity, aud unlvarsal Justico aud-humanity. Ihu Spiritualists * should - naver submit peacofully, should resist to tho - bitter ond, all dufimous altompts of _tho Young alon'a “Obirintian Association and the Evsugelical Ai- liunco to subvors (o roligious liborly of thy country by converting it to n religiots despotism, | “hat thy Children's Progressive Lyceum fi un Im< proved mothod of education, and Bpirtualisty should &ivo it thotr countonuneo sud support, 3 ouar, 111, That love of {ho woxes i3 » nntural atiraction, which oxlbtu indopendent of the hunun will, Thut tho will of suy third party which defeats (Lo maulfestation’af ‘1ove fntarfures with {he “butural or- of ,tho universo, and is un ousmy to humun huppi- ness, . 3 “Uliat marriago Ia tho sssumption of tho lova of the sexen, and Whero thore I8 no love thero is no marriage, “Chut soxual union, whoro love fs wanting, ju ‘proutl= tution, and uny law fo comwpal’ won sud’ women to aaintain thisunfon Is o system of livenso for apd en« forcemont of prostitution, ; Plint, ko all other buman eapacitis, lovo1h the sub- Jeet of tho law of evolution, and in its lower dogrovs (s o rlghtfully entitled to its' own conditions a8 in its bighor dugreo. lint thoevolution of love fa ts natural growth, nnd this growth way bo promoled by proyer wethods of aducation and oulturo, Lul ot Dy corapulaory logislie on, Tlat under thoso seversl proposition, enforcod. miarelagos sesult (o) ouly i bludiug v dud woma who do'not love; und, If abolished, wonld result only {0 tho woparutton of thoss who, both for individual happiuess and public good, ouglit to be soparate, “Fiiat tho commpunily hos no more right to' enact Iaws fmpairing the soxunl lborty of the individual Ut 1 i to obact, lawa finputring tho phyatcal, Su- tollectunl, or woral berty of tho individual, Tt elght awd Justico deniaud & chango f tha sov- oral Inws, 50 o to Include ull property for taxation, Ouap, 1v, That the Christian cleryy sro's sourey of danger to g Amorican epubiic, Thut we, a4 Bpiritunliats, vocommend (he orgauiza- tou of Liberat Leagues (ifoughout the Unitod Stutes, wWhuso object i to mulntain our presvnt Godloss Cous stitntion and Chrlsticss lstitution, . CIAY, ¥, Wirknias, Tho presout organization of tho Americun Awuciution of Spirituallaty proves 1o bo defoctiva n itw worklug nachiuory, aud 1v practically unsuited to tho thmea i theroforo, e — Kewolved, 'Thint & Comdtteo bo appoluted to report to practical nattoual o anid tho said commilttes conslst of - ¥ietoris b ot hull, Laurs Cuppy Hmm:, Boujomin Todd, A, B, Boverarice, snd J, O, Barrelt, « Thio minority roport of tho Committes on Tterolu ton was thou rond, nu follows, virs Witgnra, Dy the tenchings of kome, and tho wnwar. sattablo nssart{ons of athars, 1t ha como to b belined by many thot Bpiritunlism wrgen o repeal of all anar- Flayo 1nive, a1, an a coumeruence, IphoNIA tho preriirs of prominculty bobwoon tho sexes a4 w nintler of right ; therefaro, - Resolced, ‘Thnt wo, a8 Spiritnaliats, carneatly con. domn aud ropudiato sueh proposfulons, and strenunng. Iy maintaln thet tho mouogumic murelige, ander Staty Tnww, with justand oqunl rulos an to eacli farty, aud a to the porpetuity, caro, and_protection of the fanily, anid na to tho descont and diatribution of praporty, i tho only proper marriago, and that such narinie ons of tlo neconsnry pilines Lo o pormanent clvilized govorumont,—a usceataty basis of & high staudsrd of morallty among mankind, - Resolved, That auch contract of marriag shonld b for life, uridor the elvil governniont: biit anch oy~ ernmant should protect the Just rights of cach parly, during tha continuance of such contract; snd furthor, {hat the privilogo for divorco on tho joint petition of both partica, mado without collusion or unduo influ- once, sbould bu oxtended {o canes of pormsnent in- compatibility, the Iaw making just nud proper provis- fons o thio fainily, and sa o’ proporty, such as the highost good of all may require, Mrs, Hovorance moved to lay on the table. ‘The viva voce voto was so closo that tho yean and nayn were called by Siatos, which entnfled a great deal of troublo and caused the utmost confusion, one-hulf of tho delegates who wished to plzco thomsolyes on record having noglected to {my their dues, It took mnesrly sn hour to call the list, and the voto on Iaylug on tho tablo was finally sunounced: yoas, 119; unys, 28, Mr, Maxwoil offered tho followlng : Jesolued, That wo most earneatly condemn allfformn of licentiousneen, whothor within or without the pala of marriage, Ttenolved, That wo regard tha monogamie marriage, founded upon love, with just legal reguintions, with e?ml righta for man and ‘woman, and tho purpotuity of tho family, s the only true foundation of an en- lightoned buman svciety, - Tho first resolution wa rejectodl. Afr. Golton, of Vincland, N. J., offered tho following bosatly”rosalitton, and epoko enthuslastically I’ s avor : Tiesalved, That wo rocognizo tho conditfon repre- sonted by thoso who arguo_and practico promiscuity or soxual Intercourse outalds of ona triee 1ovo as & con- ditfon to bo commiserated, and not to bo censured or coudomnad,—a condition of the earth snd firuh to ba outgrown; that tho epirit inbmblting the form mny, while in earth.lifo, grow to & brigiitor conditiun o} spiritual development, . Tho resolutlon was rejoctod, snd the meeting ad~ Journed, + RVENING SESSION, A mooting of tis Chieago branch of tho American Bpirituslistic Association wanLield in tho gallery of tho Opera-Houso after the closa of thaafternoon mect. ing, Tho objoct of the gathering, which was presided ovor by Judga Holbrook, was to consider 'tho question of withdrawing from tho parent aseoclation ; Lut ufter discussing tha maltor nothing definito wan done, In: tho ovening messfon _half-hour mpocches woro indwged i by W, 4. BShaw, of Towns Nr, Lyuu, of BDoston; Mfsn Laura Cuppy Bnith, and Brs. Woodlwll Tho speeches touched upon mo o mew grownd, ond - contaled nothing _speclul worthy of mentlon, seva thatof tho Woodhull, who promised for her hearurs, thia eveniug, tho remnfinlg nine-tenths of whiat abe kiows about (ho Beocher candal, aho averring tuat only o tithe of {lo truth Las s yet beon told, Tho lecture, she waya, will bothie most fadical ono ehio Lan over doliverad, and will touch upon social subjects not yot voutured upon by liviug public sponkers, ¥ & adopted ond tho seconil —_—— EXCURSION TO SOUTH CHICAGO. A spechal tratn visited tho Bouth Chileago reglon yes tordsy bearing a party of railroad gentlemen and oth ors, In chargo of Col, J, I Bowen, tho visit befu|, Pald to tho Silican Steol Mills, near the Indisna Stata line, on tho east sido of the Calumot River, Tho party conslsted of Supt, Riddlo, of .tho Chicago, Rock Tsland & Pacific; Bupt. Paine, of the Lale Shoro & Michigan Boutliorn, and tho parties In interest fn tho steel mill, ‘Tho purposo of tho trip was to fully consult o3 to thio conueotion of the mills with the rallroad system of tho elty, tho side-tracks, tho bridge-crossings, vtc., on which subjects & full discussion was lield, Tiic cone struotion of the works is waking good progress, tha dock lincs bomg woll advanced, Evidences ata abnne dant of proparation for tho reafdents tais uportant in- dustry will call togethior, Thirty houses are being bullt, streets are Lelng graded, and tho handxome Tne dlaun boulovard, 100 Teot widb, Is being extended to the State lino, Tho vislt of thewo raileand oflicialy fo in proof that thoy recognizo thu now iron-workurs’ cra in our clty, Tho track from tha Rtock Ieand, st Washington iTcights, 18 aiready flnlshied to give cons ection with tho iudustries of South Chicago, ——— “ HAY-FEVER.” Avstiy, Hl, Sept. 15, 1678, To the Editor of The Chicago Y'ribuns ; Bm: Did you over have tho * hay-fover ?” 1f you nover have, take my ndvice, and—don't] I bavo csrofully seanned tho papers during the pregent summer for itoms boariug upon the subs ject, in hopo of roloiof, but in vain. Mr. Torroll's communication from Sterling, & fow wooks ngo, justly complains of tho Faculty for wot lhaving found a remedy or rolief from this most dotestablo of complainta that flesh is boir to. 1is grounds nro well taken, for it is a burning shamo that the boasted kunowledgo and'progress of the medical profession of tho prosent day havo not as yot afforded any rolicf to the thousauds of victims of a diseaso that in forrfully provalont iu this community, nud is snnually on the increase. In Mr. Bartlott's commuuication to Tz Tuin- uNE, last Baturday, ho gives whut purports to bo o romady, which ho copiod from iho Seientific American, and which, he nseorts, has afforded Lim matorial rolicf, i not. positive promio of cure, The article {u question gives tho uama of some Gormsu savant as suthority for the theory that tho disease is owing to tho pray- slonce of “vibriones,” or infusoris, in tho -, nasal mecrotions; and, 88 & rom- edy for their eradieation, preseribea & “saturated neutral solution of qnin}no alph, in water—1:740.” I waw what I supposed to bo the same articlo in the enmo paper, some fiyo yoars ago, und, haying tried overy Lnown and Imnginablo remedy, and tho theors boing plausiblo and tho raoips simple, T gave it a thor- ough sud exhasurtive trial. ''ho result, I rogrot to add, wns not in accordance with Mr, Bartlect's oxporience; and tho “romedy” bas been con- siguod, with tho thousand and ono others I liuvo triod tho past sixteen years, Lo the cemotory of disappointed hopos, o tneory may bo cor rect, and future fuvestigations may demonstrato it; but I om entified sometluug further in wantod to malse the cure radical. -Iu my caso, I hinve dorivod considerable rolief at times from vapor-bathy, aud, in fact, have froquently succeedad in ontiraly broaxing tp the diseuso by taking on old-fashivned **mwest;" but it must be taken immediately tho ver Bymptoms appeur, tor pro-omineutly hero lays are dangerous.” What is knuwn as “com- position "—a botanical properation—is-excollent Tor a **gweat,” tukon as a ten, vory kot and vory atrong. 'ho moro thorough tho spplication, the more radical the bonefit tu be derived from it, I beliove it is concoded that romoval to a colder and moro Nortbern latitudo will effect,n cure, and, it accomplished boforo its appoar- ance, will provent it, This is all vory well for those who hnve thoe means and opportunitics for ko doing ; but, for tho multitudo, it is prac- tically out” of tho questlow, 88 n moans of cure, What is wanted Is a: practical, modicnl anti- dote, rondy nr.nflpficutien, and ropsounbly cer- tain aud, untll the Faculty provido one, it will bo safo to infor thut it fulls short, s, montably, of tho requirements of tho ngo upon it. - - Roapootfully, B.W. L. GEN. HOUSTCN. Hyou Panx, 1., Sept. 15, 1873, To the Editor of The Clucayo Trilune: Bim: Your Oakland (3d.) corrcspondent, in interviowing ono Joscph Gules Fostor, Spiritualist (as por Tnrwuse of Sopt, 11), olicits information regurding the Into Gon, Sam Hous- ton which is not only fallacious, but defamatory of him who knockod at the duor of Congresy with an Empire. On leaving Clarksvillo, Ten,, Iouston and hig wifo mutually agreed never to fuform tho worll of the couscs of their scparation, and that each was to giva the samo snswor to uny and to all who should inquire, * Mrw. Louston aud mysolf woro nnsuited to ench othor.” 'This and this ouly could ever bo extorted from louston, “Alr, tlounton and myself wera unsuited to onolt other,” Nor could auything more than this be got from Mrs, Houston. Cen. Houstou, from boghood to tho day of his duath, wai fantidiously clinsto, aud his uniform habits of sobrioty wore provorbinl, Yours, 8. B, MeKiNeey, S, MR, C. C. BUELL. & Rook Farrs, T, Sept, 19, 157 Tothe Rditor of The Chicago Tribuno: Bim: Thero are sutliciont 1easons why a man ghould not bo over-sousitive about the repoits of ifs public specchos, Your roportor at Jiuck- ley, on tho 10th inat,, Lad foundation for a por- tion of Wis comments on my addresu ; but the " gtinking-pork " patt, and ‘all which follows, wore drawn ontirely from Lho imagination of thu roportor, Youwm truly, ¢. 0. BueL,